Improvement in bed-bottoms



A. TURNBULL,

lmprovement in Bed-Bottoms.-

No. 128,438. PatentedJune25,1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN BED=B OTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,438, dated June 25,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW TURNBULL, of New Britain, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inBed-Bottoms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents, in

Figure 1, a top view of a full piece; Fig. 2 a top view of a half pieceas they come from the flask; and in Fig. 3, the manner of uniting theparts to form the bedbottom.

Thisinvention relates to an improvement in the construction of thebed-bottom for which Letters Patent were granted to ltudolphus L. Webband myself, hearing date April 9, 187 2.

In that patent the bed-bottom was formed by links extending from onering to another, and were made from wire. The object of this inventionis to reduce the cost by combining one set or four links and their ringsin one and the same piece from cast metal; and it consists in combiningthe links of one section in one and the same piece with the rings orhooks which serve to connect the several sections, as more fullyhereinafter described.

The four sides A form a single section, and these sides may be in anydesired relative po sition to each other-by preference, that of adiamond form, as seen in Fig. 1. Upon opposite ends a hook, B, isformed, and upon one side a similar hook, C. In this form the section ismolded and cast of a malleable material, or made malleable aftercasting, so that the hooks may be turned one-fourth over-that is, turneddown-as denoted in Fig. 3. These sections are then attached together,the hook at one end intersecting a corresponding hook upon the end ofthe next section, and the hook on the side taking the hook of the nextsection, as seen in Fig. 3. For the edges I prefer to make a triangularlink, as seen in Fig. 2, unitin g with the other sections in the mannerdescribed, and as seen in Fig. 3.

It is not essential that a hook be formed upon each end, as the hook ofone end maytake into the end of the next section in like manner, asdescribed for the side; also, if preferred, a hook may be formed uponeach side, instead of one side, as described.

By this construction I am enabled to greatly reduce thecost of the bedin material, but to a greater extent in labor.

I claim as my invention- The sections or links for a bed-bottom, asdescribed, formed from cast metal and each provided with means forattachment to the adjoining sections, in the manner specified.

ANDREW TURNBULL.

\Vitnesses A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY.

